Frenchman to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco

[GomiGirl]

[wagyl]

I would bet my used panties

Wow, playing with big stakes! I presume you are talking about the ones you don't sell in that vending machine in Kabukicho.

[Coligny]

These people doing stunts like this always say they do this stuff to raise awareness for xyz cause/charity/disease but personally I just think they are showboating and attention seeking for their own narcissistic reasons or to thrill-seek on somebody else's dime. Honestly, I want to know who is footing the bill for this little adventure? I would bet my used panties that it will not be Monsieur Lecomte

yeah, they would much better staying at home arguing on the intarweb and complaining aboot the exposition people that actually move their asses can get...

The guy swim across fracking oceans... what else to say...

[GomiGirl]

yeah, they would much better staying at home arguing on the intarweb and complaining aboot the exposition people that actually move their asses can get...

The guy swim across fracking oceans... what else to say...

The guy could just get into a pool by himself and swim for 8 hours a day for 5 months to satisfy his "passion for swimming" rather than risk his life and the lives of all the others in the entourage and with somebody else footing the bill. All in the name of "cancer awareness". Call it what it is and just say that you want the attention. I would respect him more if he just came out and said this.

At least mad millionaires like Richard Branson and his obsessions with long distance ballooning was able to pay for it himself and he was quite open about doing it all for the publicity.

Just my opinion and like you point out, I am perhaps just being a blowhard with a computer. But I stand by this opinion.

[sublight]

He probably managed to get financing from some sports-related company that will then use him in their promotions in some way.

Incidentally, Richard Branson didn't finance his ballooning stunts by himself, he just has less difficulty getting major companies to slap their names on whatever he chooses to do. His 1999 round-the-world attempt, for example, was sponsored by ICO telecom (which I only know because I was working on a project for them through NEC at the time, and got laid off when they announced bankruptcy shortly after he crashed into the Chinese desert).

[Takechanpoo]

This dude swins while drink and shower plenty of highly radioactive contaminated water?
He is a good sample for a human subject research.

[james]

The guy could just get into a pool by himself and swim for 8 hours a day for 5 months to satisfy his "passion for swimming" rather than risk his life and the lives of all the others in the entourage and with somebody else footing the bill. All in the name of "cancer awareness". Call it what it is and just say that you want the attention. I would respect him more if he just came out and said this.

sure he could do that, but part of what makes us human is the desire to endeavour for more and to strive to accomplish that which hasn't yet been attained and to achieve the "impossible". terry fox could have walked around the block several thousand times rather than trying to go all the way across canada.

just my opinion but i feel that it's this drive that pushes our boundaries, leads us to explore, took europeans (and other older cultures) to north america, to the heights of everest, the depths of the sea, put people on the moon, probes in space and may one day take us out beyond the current confines of this planet.

[Samurai_Jerk]

These people doing stunts like this always say they do this stuff to raise awareness for xyz cause/charity/disease but personally I just think they are showboating and attention seeking for their own narcissistic reasons or to thrill-seek on somebody else's dime. Honestly, I want to know who is footing the bill for this little adventure? I would bet my used panties that it will not be Monsieur Lecomte

Why does anybody do anything?

[gaijinpunch]

Why does anybody do anything?

To get laid.

[GomiGirl]

just my opinion but i feel that it's this drive that pushes our boundaries, leads us to explore, took europeans (and other older cultures) to north america, to the heights of everest, the depths of the sea, put people on the moon, probes in space and may one day take us out beyond the current confines of this planet.

I agree with you. It isn't the fact that he is doing it per se.. [color="Silver"](although it is show boating IMO)[/color] but that he is doing it to raise "awareness for cancer". Call it what it is - "I want to be recognised for something" - and I would respect him more.

[MrUltimateGaijin]

I agree with you. It isn't the fact that he is doing it per se.. [color="Silver"](although it is show boating IMO)[/color] but that he is doing it to raise "awareness for cancer". Call it what it is - "I want to be recognised for something" - and I would respect him more.

Did Hillary climb Everest because he wanted to be recognized, or because he was a climber? Why did Scott go the Antarctic?

[wagyl]

GomiGirl is big and tough and doesn't need my or anyone else's approval, but I am going to stand up and say that I know where she is coming from on this issue. You can do it, or you can do it with fanfare and voice recognition linked to a microphone in your mask and live broadcasts on Facebook.

[GomiGirl]

Did Hillary climb Everest because he wanted to be recognized, or because he was a climber? Why did Scott go the Antarctic?

Let me repeat again - it is not the fact that people do things that haven't been done before so much as the fact they are calling it "awareness for cancer" in order to hide from the fact they want to be the "first" and get the attention.

Hilliary didn't climb Everest so that he could "raise awareness for Dyslexia or Carpel Tunnel Syndrome". If he did it today would he have a live feed via Facebook? Would he have corporate sponsorship to run his basecamp and so all of his gear was designer and matching? Who knows?

[legion]

Why did Scott go the Antarctic?

I read "The Worst Journey in the World" and I still don't know the answer to that question.

Possibly because he was crazy and believed he was invulnerable.

[Greji]

To get laid.

I'm in! How far we gotta swim?

[Greji]

Let me repeat again - it is not the fact that people do things that haven't been done before so much as the fact they are calling it "awareness for cancer" in order to hide from the fact they want to be the "first" and get the attention.

Hilliary didn't climb Everest so that he could "raise awareness for Dyslexia or Carpel Tunnel Syndrome". If he did it today would he have a live feed via Facebook? Would he have corporate sponsorship to run his basecamp and so all of his gear was designer and matching? Who knows?

Gomi, I see where you're coming from, but I'm also curious about what this guy is doing, or I should say what he claims to have done. Now I don't know much about long distance swimming to the wild, but this dood claims to have swam the atlantic in 73 days. Two and a half months. That's almost what the first of the ancient sailing ships took. Just a brief look at that figure seems to add up to him maintaining about two miles and hour, 24/7 to do the deed.

I don't know if he hit any motel's, or stopped to graze at a KFC on the way, but some how that just doesn't seem to add up right somewhere......

[Coligny]

Gomi, I see where you're coming from, but I'm also curious about what this guy is doing, or I should say what he claims to have done. Now I don't know much about long distance swimming to the wild, but this dood claims to have swam the atlantic in 73 days. Two and a half months. That's almost what the first of the ancient sailing ships took. Just a brief look at that figure seems to add up to him maintaining about two miles and hour, 24/7 to do the deed.

I don't know if he hit any motel's, or stopped to graze at a KFC on the way, but some how that just doesn't seem to add up right somewhere......

I'm pretty sure they are not taking the same route... Isn't there a gigantic windtrap in the atlantic that all sailboat have to avoid in order not to get cought in a dead wind zone in the middle of the sea ?

[Mike Oxlong]

There's also the Atlantic Gulf Stream current, which Benoit would have been swimming with, while the ancient vessels coming from Europe would have been working against. The colonial Americans used to complain that the mail coming from England took several weeks longer to arrive in Americas than mail from the Colonies to Merry Olde England.

[Mike Oxlong]

Ben Lecomte swimming from Tokyo to San Francisco to raise environmental awareness

SHARKS, jellyfish, sunburn and wayward ocean currents are the least of what Ben Lecomte will have to deal when he sets off on a six-month swim from Tokyo to San Francisco this summer.

The epic 8851 kilometre journey will involve eight hours swimming each day and the endurance swimmer said every minute of his time is scheduled.

“The last thing you want to do is not know what you’re going to do with your mind,” he told news.com.au from his home in Dallas, Texas.

“The first hour I relive any event, like a birthday party. The second hour is math exercise like counting or dividing numbers.”

“The third one I try to visualise or imagine a place I never been to like Australia. How would it be there? What would the sun be like? What’s it like when I pass someone in the street? I engage all my sense to disassociate my mind from my body.”

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[Coligny]

How come does he dare showing off again !!!

Didn't baby jeebus tought him humility and that only old ladies giving hard earned coins at sunday's mass deserve any and all praise...

[legion]

Just saw a Beeb documentary about some guy that tried to kayak from Tasmania to New Zealand

https://nswskc.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/nsw-sea-kayak-club-report-on-the-inquest-into-the-death-of-andrew-mcauley-70/

He had a wife and small son

[Coligny]

#yolo...